The phrase "approval to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the permission or consent required to start a development project or process.
Example: "We are currently awaiting approval to develop the new software application."
Alternatives: "authorization to proceed" or "permission to create".
It recently won approval to develop 686 apartments in a mixed-use development on the site of Washington's former convention center in a long-awaited project with Hines, a developer in Houston.
To that end, the developer has spent the last several years, since winning approval to develop the site in 2009, working to find the right tenant mix.
In 1972 NASA received presidential approval to develop a partially reusable transport vehicle called a space shuttle.
The union recently persuaded the Bloomberg administration to create a special permit requiring City Council approval to develop hotels in manufacturing districts.
The Western Australian environment minister, Albert Jacob, has granted the company conditional environmental approval to develop the remote east Pilbara project after more than four years of consultation and environmental studies.
International Paper of Stamford, Conn., is selling tracts from 20 to 1,200 acres in Michigan and across the South, while the Plum Creek Timber Company of Seattle is awaiting zoning approval to develop 975 lots in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine.
Prosecutors say he accepted bribes in exchange for helping get approvals to develop a parking garage.
And Empire Resorts recently obtained local approvals to develop a resort and slot parlor on the Concord site.
Mr. Bhasin said he was seeking approvals to develop two additional buildings on 12 adjacent acres, which he would lease at slightly higher rents.
The developer of the building, a condominium named Zeckendorf Towers, built the escalators in the 1980s as a public benefit in exchange for approvals to develop the site.
